On 14-18 February will take place the 7th EU-Africa Business Forum (EABF22) as a hybrid event, co-organised by the European Commission, the African Union Commission, as well as EU and African business organisations.

The forum is held every three years, back to back with the EU-AU Summit, with the aim to bring political and business leaders together to discuss partnership and investment opportunities with participants from various sectors and countries.

This year’s edition offers twelve high-level panels and numerous online workshops that provide insights into the key themes of EU-Africa business, trade and investment relations.

The FOSTEX consortium will be represented by Mr. Najib Hamouti (ESITH) who is going to participate with an active role in the Workshop on Higher Education and Business Cooperation. The workshop will address youth entrepreneurship through Higher education and business cooperation by giving the floor to African and European higher education actors, researchers and enterprises, discussing opportunities and challenges of Higher education and business cooperation at the benefit of all organisations involved and of young people entering the labour market. Concrete ways to support universities in becoming more innovative and entrepreneurial and businesses in getting access to universities know-how and innovations will be present and concrete cooperation projects and initiatives will be featured. 

The workshop is scheduled online for Tuesday 15 February from 13.45 to 14.30 and offers a great opportunity to disseminate the project aims and results achieved, while sharing the experience and good practices acquired by the FOSTEX partners. The workshop will be interactive and will involve the audience through Q&A sessions.More information and registration link available here: https://eu.eventscloud.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=200234866&